LeeAnn N has been a professional writer since 1996, working full-time and on a freelance basis as a managing editor, news editor, copy editor and reporter at various community and daily newspapers as well as at a monthly business journal and weekly trade publication. Her work has won numerous statewide press association awards. She has also maintained a popular blog for her state's largest newspaper's affiliated website and worked as a public relations and marketing copywriter for municipalities and private businesses. Her work has included everything from business news to feature articles.

Press Release

Hospitality

Government

Blog Post

Real Estate

Travel

Construction

Agriculture

Article

LeeAnn N's Hospitality Industry Experience

150 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has covered the hospitality industry since 1996, writing about it for weekly newspapers and a monthly, regional business journal. She grew up in and continues to reside in a region heavily dependent on tourism. As a result, she has covered everything from the opening of new bed-and-breakfasts to the unveiling of large, luxury hotels.

Specialties

Interests

Photography, history of the Pacific Northwest, Zen Buddhism, American literature.

Education

University of Oregon

Anthropology, English, pre-journalism.

Portland State University

Journalism, English, Anthropology.

Linfield College

Liberal studies, English, Religion

Real Estate

274 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has covered real estate news since 1996. In addition to writing about trends in the regional real estate market, she has profiled specific residential, commercial and municipal properties and written features about unique and historical properties. She has also written extensively about the affordable housing movement in the region.

Government

201 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has covered government news since 1996. Her work has focused on city, county, state and federal government as well as special districts and political campaign news. She has accompanied governors, U.S. congressman and senators and county commissioners on many tours of municipal projects, and written about local tax structures and ballot measures in a manner easily understood by newspaper readers.

Hospitality

150 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has covered the hospitality industry since 1996, writing about it for weekly newspapers and a monthly, regional business journal. She grew up in and continues to reside in a region heavily dependent on tourism. As a result, she has covered everything from the opening of new bed-and-breakfasts to the unveiling of large, luxury hotels.

Agriculture

50 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has written dozens of news articles on agriculture, for a weekly, four-state trade publication, as well as for a regional, monthly business journal. She has covered the dairy industry, forestry and various niche aspects of agriculture.

Construction

49 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has written about commercial and residential construction since 2006, primarily for a regional, monthly business journal. She covered the industry during its peak years in 2006 and 2007 and continued to write about the challenges the industry faced beginning in 2008 when the real estate bubble burst. She continues to write about local construction projects, including residential, commercial and municipal.

Travel

40 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N lives in one of the more scenically beautiful, historically rich regions in the world. She shares that beauty with readers throughout the world by writing travel articles for an international travel website, as well as for a metropolitan lifestyle magazine and several smaller regional blogs, newspapers and magazines.

Article

920 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has written hundreds of articles for print and online publications for 16 years. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines and print and web guides geared toward tourists and those relocating to a particular area, among others. It has focused on destinations, businesses, products and includes how-to articles.

Blog Post

249 Projects Completed

For nearly two years, LeeAnn N authored a community/regional blog on the state's largest newspaper's affiliated website. Her blog posts were frequently featured on the site's home page, and regularly exceeded the editor's expectations for so-called community blogs both in terms of content and unique hits. Many regional bloggers included the blog on their blogrolls.

Press Release

12 Projects Completed

LeeAnn N has written press releases for clients ranging from small businesses to medium-sized corporations on subjects ranging from special events and new product lines to business expansion. She has also ghost-written first-person newspaper and magazine columns for clients.